Alumna speaking to students from the Indian Ocean

Chelsea Korpanty ’11, a Ph.D. student in geology at the University of Queensland, will speak to Cornell College students via a live stream in Hedges on Tuesday. Sept. 8 at 1:30 p.m. from her lab on board the International Ocean Discovery Program’s Indonesian Throughflow expedition. 

Korpanty is a sedimentologist working on the ship. On Tuesday she will give students, including those in a class on climate change, a tour of her lab, as well as the rest of the vessel. Korpanty is part of a team analyzing core samples taken from the floor of the Indian Ocean. The goal of the expedition is to create a record of the changes in the Idonesian Throughflow, which moves warm water from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean and has a major impact on global climate.